Ubuntu's risky leap: Unity on Wayland

Virion · Post by **Virion** » Fri Nov 05, 2010 9:42 pm

http://www.cio.com.au/article/367050/ub ... y_wayland/

Ubuntu is slowly abandoning X interface. will this cause problems for irrlicht to run on ubuntu since irrlicht is running on top of X?

hybrid · Post by **hybrid** » Sat Nov 06, 2010 10:03 pm

Never heard about it before. But as it seems there's a compatibility layer. And for native support we'd need a new device, which would use the ogl-es driver directly. Something which we can start after Irrlicht 1.8, probably not too much work.

CuteAlien · Post by **CuteAlien** » Sun Nov 07, 2010 1:49 pm

This got announced just last week. But afaik Wayland is still heavy in development and this will take at least a year until Ubuntu will use it.

CuteAlien · Post by **CuteAlien** » Mon Nov 15, 2010 6:16 pm

Wow, this is getting traction fast. It seems Fedora plans to follow: http://blogs.computerworld.com/17351/fe ... or_wayland

Virion · Post by **Virion** » Mon Nov 15, 2010 6:38 pm

LOL i still remember those who hate Ubuntu wrote comment and asked everybody to switch to Fedora. This seems like a big disappointment to them.